Re: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken?

[Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>]

On 6/18/05, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >I have just tried upgrading my firewall to 2.6.12, but neither of the following rules in my
> >FORWARD table was allowing return traffic:
> 
> You forget about INPUT and OUTPUT. If you drop everything in INPUT, there's
> nothing to FORWARD.

No. INPUT/OUTPUT rules have nothing to do with FORWARDed traffic,
since a packet is either locally destined (INPUT), locally originated
(OUTPUT) or being forwarded (FORWARD).

> > 1109  814K ACCEPT     all  --  ppp0   br0     anywhere             anywhere         ctstate
> >RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> >  11M   13G ACCEPT     all  --  ppp0   br0     anywhere             anywhere         state
> >RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> >
> >I have currently returned to using 2.6.11.11, where the identical configuration works fine. br0 is
> >a bridge device containing two e100 devices, and ppp0 is my PPPoE DSL link. I am using iptables
> >1.3.1.

Did you have /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward turned on?

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[ Tobias DiPasquale ]
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